"One of the most successful dictators of the twentieth century, Stalin believed that fashioning a better tomorrow was worth sacrificing the lives of millions today. He built a modern Russia on the corpses of millions of its citizens." "Stalin and Stalinism has established itself…
This is a groundbreaking text; the contributors have analysed specific areas of the research available on Stalin and Stalinism in the USSR debate. A useful work for departments of Russian studies, history, politics and international relations.
This study of the Soviet political posters issued between 1918 and 1953, describes the archetypal images they featured, such as the worker, the peasant woman, the enemy and the leader. It analyzes these Bolshevik icons and explains how they defined the popular outlook in Soviet …
Cinema and Soviet society from the revolution to the death of Stalin
by Kenez, Peter
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Cinema and Soviet society from the revolution to the death of Stalin
by Kenez, Peter
fromKINO
Cinema and Soviet society from the revolution to the death of Stalin
by Kenez, Peter
fromKINO
"In this work, Igal Halfin exposes the inner struggles of Soviet Communists to identify themselves with the Bolshevik Party during the decisive decades of the 1920s and 1930s. The Bolsheviks preached the moral transformation of Russians into model Communists for their political …
Melvyn Leffler's succinct and important new analysis of the origins of the Cold War begins with the outbreak of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917: ideological animosity between the Soviet Union and the United States existed from the moment Lenin seized power. Leffler traces the i…
"Leaders of the Soviet Union, Stalin chief among them, well understood the power of art, and their response was to attempt to control and direct it in every way possible. This book examines Soviet cultural politics from the Revolution to Stalin's death in 1953. Drawing on a weal…